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Fix it don’t snuff it. In the Toronto Star today I write a defence of Ridgeway Plaza. People want this kind of downtown experience but we’ve built so much of Canada for cars & hostile to people. Ridgeway is a canary in our civic coal mine, a symptom of a bigger disease: cars.

Such a breathtaking confluence of societal failures in this Hannah Dreier story. You've got crippling healthcare costs, lack of worker protections, worsening climate-fueled wildfires, poverty, lack of opportunity for young men... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

School started in #Montreal this week, and our school-street / rue-école is back!

The street outside our children’s elementary school is closed to cars—but open to people.

I have an essay in @theglobeandmail.com telling the story of how we made it happen:

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I wrote about Noel Gallagher, the chief: defector.com/the-oasis-re...

Avid readers have probably already seen their favorite authors--many of whom rely on these grants to buy time to finish their books--posting in shock about the form rejections they've received from the NEA. Well, here is the obituary.
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

For those curious, this is the description of the session being led by an AI at Eden Mills (it's also the first event of the festival in the program after the launch party). the "fellow co-weaver" is the ED of the foundation that provided funding to create the chatGPT powered AI that wrote the "book

Four young Afghan siblings were hiding in Pakistan, desperate to avoid deportation, when @dougsaunders.bsky.social met them. This is their epic, harrowing story (I'm biased but I'm extremely proud of Doug for his role in helping bring the Hamidis to Canada.) www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

“We need your help, Doug, they identified us in the apartment.” This is a movie:
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“What does due process look like for a toddler?” Incredible reporting by @saramojtehedz.bsky.social, Kathryn Blaze Baum, @mahima-singh.bsky.social, @janicedickson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif has been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside Al-Shifa hospital.

When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.

Trump's war on facts has reached a new level and the message is clear: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line and adopt his version of reality no matter how false or risk losing their jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

One of the greatest city maps ever made (by @chazhutton.com)

Being obsessed with the weather isn’t new, but this fixation has been modernized with hyper-localized streams of information, push notifications and influencers who feed on its addictive nature – all against the backdrop of extreme weather events. My latest: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Fantastic stuff www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...